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Tuesday; February, 23. 1982 Published by the University of Volume 28, Number 21

Rallying on Cuts and Consultation it was a week of protests. College and uni- President Sheldon Hackney, returning from versity presidents led off theirs against the Rea- Center City where he had been accepting gan budget last Monday (more on pages 4-5). Mayor 's citation for leadership in the Students supporting the Voter Rights march in Brailovsky protest (excerpt below), spoke Alabama staged one at noon Thursday. And briefly on the steps of College Hall and an- then came the big one that turned into a sit-in: a swered questions at length. Crowd chants demonstration that pinpointed proposed cuts ranged from "Bullshit!" and "Hell, no, teams in athletics against broader issues of consulta- won't go!" to a more courtly "Let him talk!" tion and of follow-through on existing com- Provost Thomas Ehrlich accompanied the mitments. President but answered only one question: The ten-hour sit-in that ended at midnight Had Academic Planning and Budget been con- Thursday grew out of a rally that started at 1:30 sulted on the 15 percent tuition increase prop- p.m. with the singing of "The and the osal? (Answer: "Yes."). ." From the steps of College Hall, student Of the 400 or so students who stood in a light leaders of U A, GA PSA, UMC. IFC. arid sev- snowfall for the rally, about half initially sat in, eral team sports (some slated for cuts, some occupying the T-shaped first-floor corridor of not) spoke to a sixteen-point list of demands. College Hall. The sit-in portion of the protest began with a reminder of the Guidelines on Open Expression by UA's Chair Liz Cooper. By afternoon the student coalition had dis- concern in a spirit of cooperation and without tilled five from the initial 16 confrontation. points (see page 2. left side of table). President and Provost The University faces serious financial strains over the period ahead. Expenses must be reduced in every appeared briefly at 6 p.m. and, with eight stu- part of the University. This can be accomplished with dents elected from the floor, moved upstairs to a minimum of a of careful difficulty only by process the 's gallery for talks. and full consultation. We will do all we can analysis They ended shortly before midnight with a to ensure that this continues. From the President and the Provost: process written agreement which, with minor word -Sheldon Hackney changes, appears on page 2 alongside the five The Conclusion of the Sit-in and Thomas Lhrhch demands. The President and Provost made a The sit-in that occurred last Thursday was the visit to the result of concerns of some students, particularly good-night corridor, and student relating to consultation. As we agreed to do before Proclamation on Brailovsky leaders submitted the five-point agreement to the sit-in began, we met Thursday night with eight of the University of Pennsylvania has admitted voice vote by a crowd now dwindled to 50 or the students to views. Since the extent of of Moscow as a freshman in exchange L.eonid Brailovsky 60. Most points were cheered, but some protes- consultation with a new administration was the the ('lass of 1985 the Soviet Union although ters grumbled at "no real gains." primary issue, under all the circumstances a meeting continues to deny him an exit visa and is increas- DuBois House's Eleanor Childs gave an seemed fitting this one time. Discussion around the ing its harassment and imprisonment of Sos iet end-of-the-rally reminder that the Montgo- table was both forthright and reasonable, with the Jews. Continued next student leaders participating in a responsible way. We The Penn for Brailovsky Committee, under page were able to develop a statement of understanding the leadership of its chairman. University 01 Penn- that recognizes the concerns of faculty and students slsania President Sheldon Hackney, hasbeen in $25 Million a Year at Risk and emphasizes the importance of consultation the forefront of activities mobili,ed to free leo- Net losses to this could run to $25 through the University's established governance nid Brailovsks President Hackney has taken university million annum if the mechanisms. As a result, we believe a stronger bond upon himself the responsibility of corresponding per Reagan budget goes of trust was established between student leadersand with the State Department and other Washing- through. President Sheldon Hackney says in the The administration. University needs that bond. ton officials on behalf of Brailovskv. his extended analysis of the impact of "off- Now more than ever it is that the The Penn for Brailovsky Committee wishes to important campus budget" as well as "on-budget" cuts proposed be unified, and we recognize that unity is possible strengthen support to protest this denial of ... to Congress. See pages 4-5. only with full communication. basic human rights. City officials, community At the same time, we make clear to all in the leaders and student organizationsarejoining for- INSIDE University community that it is not appropriate for ces to demand freedom for t.eonid Brailovsky so " Sit-in and 2 us to attempt to resolve issues of concern under that he may pursue his education at the Univer- Issues Agreement, p. " Council: of Vice Provost pressures of duress. Nor is it appropriate for us to sity of Pennsylvania. Republished Report Committee, meet with groups whilethey are seeking to applysuch Accordingly, the City of Philadelphia is pleased Search p.2 " SEAS to Six pressures- however sincere their views. With our to present this statement to President Sheldon Response Papers,' p.3 " President: On Cuts, reaffirmation of established consultative procedures Hackney and the Penn for Brailovskv Commit- Reagan Budget p.4 " No Side' Investment in for the gathering of comments and advice from all tee for their efforts to secure the freedom of Supply People, p.5 " Out, Asbestos, segments of the University community, we are confi- 1.eonid Brailovsky. Speaking p.6... p.7 - " of Publications, 8-10 dent that the administration, faculty, students, and Mayor William J. Green inventory Campus pp. staffwill be able to work through problems of mutual Insert: Personnel Relations Newsletter

Continuedfrom page one Nomination: The Hower Chair Thefolloiving statement was issued prior to A search is conducted to select a mery marchers would be home Friday and Thursday s student rally: being faculty the member to become the newly endowed Hower Pro- called agreement "something to come home Februari 18, 1982 lessor within the Wharton School. The chairholder to." The ended with a call for of rally clean-up The Council Committeeon Recrea- University will have a in Public trash and a of "." primary appointment Manage- reprise tion and Intercollegiate Athletics has received a ment in the Department of L.egil Studies and Public the final Monday, agreement was issued tentative plan for the implementation of athletic Management in the Wharton School. Candidates jointly by the administration and the student policy. Thecommittee andother bodies arestudy- should have an established research reputation in and the President and Provost added ing the plan and will be making recommenda- groups, applied economics with emphasis on regulation. It is another of their own one). II tions to the president and provost. The final plan (page By a.m., a preferred that candidates have some background in will be published subsequently. The questions of different student group-Student Struggle for the field of law and economics. The search is limited and of sports groupings downgrading varsity to candidates within the of Soviet Jewry-had gathered before College University Pennsylvania. teams to club sports are under intense discussion. Hall, headed for a short in which Nominations for the Hower Professorship should be ceremony Information that is at this public time must be sent to Professor Thomas Dunfee, Hower President the name of Locust chairman. Hackneychanged considered tentative. highly Professor Search Committee, March 1982. Walk for a in honor of and by I. day, Brailovsky, -Sheldon Steinberg. Chair called for increased efforts-through chan- Committee on Recreation and nels-to pressure Moscow for his release. Intercollegiate Athletic: - COUNCIL. Last week, a production error lost the last two para- Issues Negotiated In the Sit-in graphs of the report of the search committeefor vice provost for research. For coherency it is republished Initial ListJoint Statement of Agreement infull. with apologies to the committee and the Distributed talks: reader.- Ed. before Thefollo wing was agreed to on 18 February 1982: I. Consultation: While the respon- I. Decisions affecting students and faculty should be for decisions lies with the made with the advice of those who will be most affected; sibility Vice Provost for Research administration, no decision can be however, we recognize that the ultimate decision, and the February 4, 1982 made without the input of (hose who ultimate responsibility for it, must lie with the administra- The Search Committee for a Vice Provost for will be most affected, primarily stu- tion. To that end, we affirm the University administration's Research was constituted in early September. 1981. dents and faculty members. The cur- responsibility to the community as a whole, through the Its members were Cindy D'Ambrosio; Renee Fox; rent decision-making processmust be University governance mechanisms, to consult early in the Fred Karush, chairman; Michael Katz; Sarah Kim- disclosed to the with honest, disclosure of University. decision-making process, prompt ball; James Lash; Almarin decisions. Phillips; and Charles Rosenberg. The Committee met regularly through- 2. Cut,: for all athletic 2. The Council Committee on Recreation and Support University outthe fall, submitting,on 14 December 1981,a list of teamsand reinstatement of those that Intercollegiate Athleticsmust review any proposal for remo- three names for the consideration of the Provost. The have been slated for cuts, with a new val of a team from status under to be varsity procedures list included only internal candidates. The Provost for teams from defined the Committee. Consideration should be to procedure removing by given had requested that the search focus internally "with- status in the future that would other than the of teams for scarce varsity ways cutting allocating out precluding consideration of unusually qualified guarantee consultation from all those athletic resources. external candidates." involved. As a corollary measure, the athletic implementation The position was advertised in The Chronicle of under review will not be proposal currently implemented Higher Education. The New York Times, and The until there is significant and meaningful input from the Daily Pennsylvanian. A copy of the advertisement is Council Committee and other relevant bodies. We strongly attached. Suggestions for names were also solicited recommend that the Committee make effort to ensure every through an article in the Almanac and letters to the the widest discussion about the possible public major policy deans, department chairpeople, graduate and under- issues it is reviewing. We also recommend that the Commit- graduate student leaders, members of the University tee on Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics address the Council and the Board of Trustees. of transition and how it affects the student athlete. problem The Committee was charged to recommend one 3. Tuition and long-rang. plannlng3. A review of the workings and agenda of the Academic who could "ensure the continued maintenance and In light of skyrocketing tuitions, an Planning and Budget Committee will be undertaken by the strengthening of the University's research capabili- increase in student consultation on Academic Planning and Budget Committee. Their report ties" as they interact with both government and academic and budgetary planning. will be completed by the end of this fiscal year, and will be industry. published in Almanac. The 64 nominees included 57 men and 7 women. This Committee is particularly important in light of the Thirty were internal candidates; thirty-four were University's current financial problems and the impact of from outside the University. Four applicants were these problems on all members of the University community. Black; the balance appeared to be Caucasian. None 4. Diversity of Admission.: That4. The administration intends and has every expectation appeared to be handicapped. need-blind admissions continue, of maintainingthe need-blind admissions policy for the next All candidates recommended to the Provost were without an increase in self-help re- academic year. with the least possible increase in the self-help male. Professor Barry Cooperman's name was in- quirements, during 1982-83, together component. cluded; he has accepted the appointment. with a method increasing minorityWe recognize the priority need for, and will search -Fred Karush. Chairman presence on campus.diligently for, an Hispanic admissions officer. The administration reaffirms its commitment to in- creased numbers of minority students, faculty and staff. 3601 Locust Walk/G8 The administration will undertakean attrition Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 ongoing (215) 243-5274 or 5275. study with theassistance of the undergraduate schools. 5. lnt.cculturat Center The estab- 5. The administration reaffirms its commit- University The University of Pennsylvania's journalof record and opinion lishment of the Intercultural Center, ment to the establishment of an Intercultural Center with is published Tuesdays during theacademic year andas needed with a full-time director and substan- adequate resources for full programming. This Center, during summer and holidaybreaks. Guidelines for readersand contributors are availableon request. tial resources for full programming. regardless of site, will be in the highest priority grouping among capital projects. The administration will use its best EDITOR Karen C. Gaines efforts to secure adequate resources for a full-timedirector. ACTING ASSISTANTEDITOR Ruth A. Heeger ACTING EDITORIAL ASSISTANT LindaM. Fischer WORK/STUDY ASSISTANTS Anita LaRue. Sabiha Khaki Michael Archer Steven Ludwig ALMANACADVISORY BOARD Clifton Mur- Efizabeth B. Cooper Salena Martinez Cherpack,chair. Gerslenhaber, Jamshed Ghandhi. Charles 0. Thomas Ehrlich Laverne Miller ray Graham. Jr. Phoebe Leboy and Carolyn Marvin for the Faculty Senate Sheldon Hackney Charles Rich James A. Spady for the Administration .... Jane Bryan for the Susan Keffer Victor J. Wolski Librarians Assembly .... Shirley Winters for the Administrative Assembly .... Una L. Deutsch for the A-3 Assembly. 2 ALMANAC. February 23, 1982

A Response to the Six Working Papers for Strategic Planning By the Faculty Council of the School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Faculty Council of the School of Engineering and Applied upkeep. Otherwise, investigators will be discouraged from obtaining Science (SEAS) is a representative body elected by the SEAS Faculty. such equipment. Along with other duties, the Faculty Council undertakes the long-range Here again, the basic issue involves allocating University resources. planning function of the School. As a part of this effort, Task Forces The research posture of the University requires the existence of certain appointed by this Council have considered, and continue to consider equipment. In many instances, a proposal cannot even be written with- thoroughly, various long-range planning issues. As a partial fulfillment out these facilities. This is indeed a good investment, the payback on of its duty, the Council conducted an informal hearing (to which the which is rapid because it insures that our researchers are not forced to entire Faculty was invited) to discuss thedraft papers prepared by the six trail the state-of-the-art for want of the basic necessities. working groups established by the President and Provost. During these The final point is to suggest a mechanism through which the first two deliberations, the Council considered each The follow- Working Paper. priorities may be achieved. The concept of a Research Foundation at the ing are the major issues for the Faculty of the School of Engineering and University of Pennsylvania has been suggested previously. It is our Applied Science, and are hereby presented to the Academic Planning recommendation that the role of the Research Foundation be strength- and Budget Committee for their consideration. We recommend that: ened. As originally conceived, the Research Foundation should take the " Top priority should be given to University support for first-year graduate form of an endowment or a patent royalty fund from which the invest- fellowships. ments noted above would be made. " A commitment must also be made for the upkeep and upgrading of research As envisioned, the Research Foundation would serve many functions: facilities and equipment. first-year fellowships: upkeep of facilities and support of personnel " The role of the Research Foundation should be strengthened as a mecha- during short gaps in funding support; seeding new faculty research nism to achieve these priorities. programs; helping senior people change research directions and develop The reputation and long-term well-being of the University of Pennsyl- new research capabilities; and so forth. Thus, the Research Foundation vania depend upon excellence in graduate education and research. The would provide acushioning effect and a mechanism for the University to University must continue to attract outstanding graduate students and invest in itself, in ventures which will pay back more than is put in. to carry on first-rate research programs in order to maintain and Implementation of this recommendation could take the form of strength- enhance its rank among the leading institutions. ening and upgrading the existing Research Foundation. The key priority is additional University support for first-yeargraduate In summary, the response of the SEAS Faculty Council is focused on which fellowships. Such an effort would be an investment with a very quick the connections between graduate education and research, both of payback. There is general agreement that the support of first-year are absolutely essential in maintaining and enhancing the University's is graduate students by means other than contract and grant funds will reputation and status. It is recommended that the top priority commit- improve the quality and effectiveness of such extramurally-supported increased support for first-year graduate fellowships. Also, a research. ment is needed for the upkeep and upgrading of research facilities and These fellowships are also an investment in terms of their potential equipment. The role of the Research Foundation should be strengthened role as a part of an overall, and very attractive, package for recruiting as a mechanism to achieve these priorities. top-notch graduate students. Bringing such people to Pennsylvania is a Nabil H. Farhat Dwight L Jaggard matter of great concern, both in terms of overall scholarly activity and Eduardo D. Glandi John D. Keenan, Secretar; the benefit to research projects. It is generally appreciated that this goal Fred HaberBonnie L Webber can be achieved through the development of an improved recruitment fraj Zandi. Chair package which includes first-year fellowships, better facilities, attractive offices, and hospitality during on-campus visits. First-year fellowship aid is important in many disciplines. In addition Still Tracking the 'Six Papers' to the generalized benefits to the University community noted above, an Last week on page 2, brief notes were given on seven school-level enhanced fellowship program would have for particular advantages consultations that may furnish responses to the "Six Working Papers for individual schools. As an at the bacca- example, engineering graduates Strategic Planning." FAS, Wharton, Engineering, Nursing. Dental Medi- laureate level are professionals, and we must compete with industry (in cine, Veterinary Medicine, and Law reported. In the remaining schools: addition to other schools) to attract them into our programs. The Ann.nbsrg and Graduate Education are emphasizing individual faculty establishment of a first-year fellowship program would help to amelio- response to the Academic Planning and Budget Committee; OSE is also and Students" in its executive committee; rate this problem, and, at the same time, produce a significant and rapid reviewing "Minority Faculty "Graduate Education" to the Graduate Council; return on that investment with respect to the quality of the research commending channeling school input on "Ties with the City" through University Council; and program. sending an analytical proposal on fellowship support to the Deputy Another Issue concerns the and mainte- high priority development Provost ... Social Work singled out four papers, and each member of the nance of research facilities and equipment. Given the necessity to main- faculty is serving on a school-level work groupof his/ herchoice; they will tain (if not improve) the University's standing as a leading research report at the Open Meetings as follows: "Minority Faculty and Students" institution, it is apparent that a commitment must be made for the and "Educational Outreach," February 26; "Reasearch" and "Ties with the 12 ... at one upkeep and upgrading of facilities andequipment. This is especially true City," March OSFA hasdiscussed the document as a whole and will continue at tomorrow's ... SPUP is in an era characterized by the continual development of progressively faculty meeting, currently planning toward implementation of in-school and interschool ideasgiven more sophisticated equipment. Provision should be made for the upkeep in several of the papers ... MsdIcIn. has the document as a whole in the of those basic facilities for which there is a long-term commitment. hands of the Steering Committee of the Medical Faculty Senate, and the There is an undercurrent of feeling that the University has not com- dean has assigned some of the topics to standing committees for review. mitted itself in terms of resources to research. The need for this kind of Provost Thomas Ehrlich has also been collecting individual written is clear. A recent national the status of support survey concerning responses, and some forty faculty, staff and students turned up for the academic research laboratories shows them to be in poor shape. Contin- February 19 Open Meeting. All are welcome at the remaining two- uing research efforts at the cutting edge of many disciplines require new February 26 and March 12, 3p.m. in 102 Chemistry. investments in equipment which in turn necessitate maintenance and ALMANAC, February 23, 1982 3

-FROM THE PRESIDENT

On President Reagan's Proposed Cuts

Our campus should now be fully aware that President Reagan's With regard to undergraduate programs, the proposed changes in proposed "on-budget"student aid cuts for 1983-84 would reduce federal Guaranteed Student Loans are not as potentially totally devastating as aid 47 percent nationwide (64 percent at Penn), even before taking into with graduate and professional students, only because undergraduates account the effects of inflation. would not be ineligible for GSLs. However, the effects upon undergrad- The purpose of this column is to bring to the attention of the campus uate populations and programs would still be very great. For instance, other proposed cuts. These are, first, the proposed cuts in "off-budget" the new GSL loan origination fee (paid by the borrower) has been student aid programs, especially the bank-administered Guaranteed doubled to 10 percent of face value ofthe loan, and moreover the student Student Loans (GSL); second, the proposed cuts in research support; would (unlike current GSL practice) have to face market rates on any and third, cuts in Medicaid-Medicare as they would affect Penn. I will balance remaining two years after graduation. Informed opinion has it also describe what we are doing and intend to do to address these that the cost increases in GSL would discourage parents and undergrad- problems on and off campus. uate students from incurring GSL debt, especially in higher amounts. Informed opinion also has it that the 47 percent cut in "on-budget" The Federal Aid Threat federal aid, plus the greater cost of GSLs, would reduce applications at Taken together, these student aid, research funding, and medicaid- many high-priced institutions. medicare proposals constitute a major threat to all of higher education, No one can predict the precise effects on a particular institution that but especially to this and other high quality institutions. It isa threat that such unprecedented student aid proposals, especially taken together, should rivet our attention and command all our energies. It is a threat would in fact cause. But as to higher education generally, it is clear that, that dwarfs all of our otherwise appreciable problems in its potential since current nationwide aid equals 86 percent of nationwide tuition effect on all our finances, on all our academic activities, and on all our revenues, an enormous shake-out may occur if the Congress approves non academic activities. the cuts in their present extent. With those kinds of cuts from aid at Let me sketch the magnitude ofthe threat, and then turn to the specific current levels, the total number of students going to college would drop, proposed cuts not previously discussed. there would be some loss of selectivity at selective high-priced institu- As recently as 1970 the nationwide total of federal student aid ("on- tions, and many high-priced institutions would lose their lower- budget" aid administered by colleges, as well as "off-budget" such as economic-origin students entirely. guaranteed bank loans), expressed as a fraction of the total nationwide Whether these effects would occurat Penn cannot be predicted. What tuition revenues (all tuition paid to every post-secondary institution, is predictable, however, is the dollar loss to Penn. "On-budget" alone, as regardless of the source) was 29 percent. In the latest year for which we we discussed February 15, the loss by 1983-84 would be $6.49 million have figures (1981), that ratio had become 86 percent. Clearly, except for annually by and after the 1983-84 academic year. "Off-budget" revenue defense, higher education has silently become one of the most federally such as GSL is difficult to predict, but currently 10,677 Penn students dependent sectors. (slightly over half of whom are undergraduates) share $34.6 million in GSL loans. The graduate students would be ineligible, so we can "guess- Guaranteed Student Loans timate" that at a minimum Penn students as a whole would receive $15 million less due to GSL with It is against the fact of dependence that President Reagan's Guaran- perhaps changes, attendant effects on enrollment, research, and so on. teed Student Loan proposals must be understood. At the same time that the President is proposing that four "on-budget" programs be reduced Adding these two figures, $21 or so million in federal student aid by $1.6 billion (47 percent) by Fall of 1983, he is closing off the principal support at Penn is at risk under President Reagan's proposals. "off-budget" loan program that would otherwise help cushion that blow. The President has suggested that the GSL program be altered in Research and Medicaid-Medicare Cuts several ways that will cause great problems at high-priced, selective Although the University budget is, in the short run, compartmental- major research institutions such as Penn. Perhaps foremost, since we ized, in the long run any threat to a major sector of the University budget have one of the highest proportions of graduate and professional stu- is a threat to all sectors. Just as a threat to student aid will first directly dents in the nation, is his proposal that such students henceforth be threaten the number and quality of undergraduate and graduate stu- ineligible for GSLs. The resulting blow to graduate and professional dents and then indirectly threaten the research and medical enterprises, education would be devastating. so also threats to research or hospital funding will ultimately become The President has proposed to substitute a program at closer to threats to the student sector. We are, indeed, "one university." market-interest rates for which graduate students would be eligible, but Research funding at a given institution, unlike student aid funding, the American Council on Education (ACE) advises that the President's cannot be calculated directly from national available funding levels. This new program would make up only a small portion ofthe GSL loss. This is because research awards at agiven institution are influenced at least as is because of three factors associated with the substitute program: the much by the activity ofthat faculty in applying for awards,as by(within high interest rates, the fact that (unlike GSL) interest would accrue while limits) the average level of funds available nationwide. So far the Penn the student was still in school, and the fact that the subsidies and research community has responded well, and those cuts that have guarantees do not appear to be sufficient to attract much bank participa- appeared so far at the national level have (in the aggregate across all our tion. Overall, the ACE calculates that only a fraction of graduate federally sponsored research) not resulted in ascertainable aggregate students could secure the new kind of loan in the first place, and that in losses at Penn. The absence ofnet losses masks the deep cuts in national any event its terms would increase costs by as much as 67 percent for support of the humanities and social sciences; this is an instance of the those students who did secure the loans. In either case, the new program cuts being so great at the national level that the limits which can be would surely heavily affect individual decisions about advanced overcome by greater application activity are surpassed, and we must education. with colleague institutions reverse the cuts themselves. 4 ALMANAC, February 23, 1982

In a coincidence 0/liming unrelated to the outcry ofcollege presidents over student-aired cuts. the University of Penn.s vlvania Press just issued the 13'har- It appears so far that President Reagan is not proposing cuts for ton/Reliance Symposium papers on Toward a New US Industrial Policc?, federal fiscal 1983 in those federal research institutes that the represent edited by Professors Michael Wachter and Susan Wachter Following are bulk of our Penn federal research awards. However, the admin- Reagan excerpts from a news re/ease. istration has proposed that the indirect cost recovery available under National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants be reduced by 10 percent. No 'Supply Side' Investment in People Seventy percent of Penn's federally sponsored research is under NIH The Wachters' book contains essays and research papers on the nation's if the is made Penn could lose as grants. Accordingly, proposal policy, economic policy debate b Harvard's Otto Eckstein and John Dunlop: labor much as $I million or $2 million in indirect cost funds from recovery leaders Lane Kirkland and Douglas Fraser; Treasury Secretary Donald NIH per annum. That $1 million or $2 million will have to be made up Regan; Congressman Henry Reuss; social commentators Peter Drucker. from monies in other parts of the budget. Irsing Kristol and Daniel Yankelovich; business leaders Reginald Jones and The threat to Medicaid-Medicare at Penn's hospital is, like the threat Irving Shapiro: Wharton Professors Jean Crockett, Irwin Friend and Nobel to student aid, fairly calculable, since both are so-called "formula" Laureate Lawrence Klein. and others. "The to from the is the conclusion. grants. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) receives biggest surprise emerge papers general from economists on both sides of the political debate, that President Ronald more Medicaid dollars than any other hospital in the Commonwealth. Reagan's policies are no more friendly to business than are the Democrat- 30 of all services at H UP are for Currently, percent in-patient provided controlled Joint Economic Committee's policies." said Michael Wachter. Medicare With the of the recipients. aging population, we can expect "The economists in our book agree that we need more business investment. that this percentage will increase at HUP and in all hospitals. President and that to get it we must use tax incentives to lower the direct cost of Reagan has proposed that the reimbursement formula for Medicaid and investment to business. Reagan did make important innosations in this area Medicare each be reduced by 2 percent. We estimate that, if President last year. but he has relied too much on indirect encouragement through tax cuts. There's little doubt that this is not an efficient to he Reagan's proposed reduction of 2 percent in the Medicaid and Medicare personal way go." added. The Wachters said that some of the tax cut mone reimbursement formula is accepted by Congress. HUP will lose $2 although personal does end used for business investment, another is lost million. up being portion through personal consumption. "More attention needs to be paid to gosernment investment in the entire network of transportation and communication systems that make up our Net Losses public supply olcapital, our infrastructure." said Susan Wachter. "The impor- Doing some arithmetic, and allowing for contingencies, it appears tance of a combined business and government lnsestment policy to long-run from all the foregoing that the total risk to Penn income, both "on- economic health is a major theme of the papers by economists and politicians alike." budget" and "off-budget," if all of the Reagan administration proposals The Wachters' criticism extends to other areas where government insest- are accepted, is on the order of $25 million per annum. ment has been cut back- research and development and "human capital" including education and job training. "The sanw mistake that is being made in physical infrastructure policy is We Are Steps Taking being made in these other areas. There is no 'supply side' policy for insestment in people." said Michael Wachter. The situation is very serious. We are therefore mounting a comprehen- "Will America decline as a manufacturing nation parallel to the decline in sive response to these proposed cuts. The response has a Philadelphia its manufacturing work force? The policy decisions have not been made a a and an component, Washington component, campus component, vet-- but will hase to be made within the next ie years." writes Peter associational 1 can sketch out here the outline of our component. only Drucker of Claremont Graduate School. "Creating and pros iding jobs for still developing plan. knowledge workers will be the overriding social priority." We organized a response from our Philadelphia-area colleague presi- The federal government's failure to invest sufficiently in both human and dents, as witness last week's joint press conference of 14 schools repre- physical capital in year one o Reaganomics will put the burden increasingl on state But such those in the indus- sentinga strong cross-section of higher education in the Delaware Valley. governments. governments. particularly trial North, federal subsidies and a resenue That group now has a functioning agenda, and we will together seek to squeezed by declining declining tax base, are increasingly unable to meet that burden a problem that will convince the Philadelphia community of its economic and social stake in grow worse under the proposed "New Federalism." said the Wachters. "our" problem. We have begun the process, in the Commonwealth and But they come to the administration's defense against criticism oser the of fellow who will beyond, organizing presidents provide geographically current deficit spending. "The budget isn't balanced right nos because of the in balanced testimony Washington. We will visit Washington on March 3 recession, and because of the social program increases that come about during in company with other institutions for the purpose of visiting our and recessions. Although we're in Reagan's recession, this is Carter's budget other Congressmen; there have been telephone"visits" in the meanwhile. deficit. Without Reagan's policies the current deficit would be out of sight. We at Penn will sponsor a luncheon in Washington sometime (to be There's no reason to require a budget to be balanced duringa recession of this over the entire course of the business determined) laterin March to speak to our Pennsylvania Congressional magnitude. But it should be balanced that is. boom times the should run a delegation as a whole. The main battle in Washington will be in late cycle: during government surplus," Michael Wachter added. March and April, and that agenda is still developing. And, according to the Wachters. critics are wrong to blame high interest On campus, we are beginning to communicate with the various rates on Reagan's policies. "You do experience severe crowding out of the constituencies-students, friends. We need letter- parents, faculty, money markets by government when the economy is robust, but you don't at visits to talks to friends-of-friends, and so on. Also writing, Washington, times like these, when there is a recession. Unemployment is high, utilization on campus, we have already begun to study the problem of how we can rates for plant and equipment are low. Peoplejust don't want to invest because finance our students if these cuts go through. In some aspects, this study they aren't making full use of the resources the already have," said Michael goes back seven months, to when we anticipated this eventuality. In some Wachter. other aspects, our study extends beyone the campus, into alternate To bring interest rates down, the Wachters suggest balancing the budget over the recover via new excise taxes that hit financing systems. period, possibly consumption relative to investment and income. Although the President specifically ruled We think we can organize the elements of a total response. What we out such taxes in his State of the Union address, the Wachters say they see need is community support to carry it out-parents, students, faculty, public and Congressional support for such taxes growing, and they may well friends. If President Reagan's program goes through, it will be a major become politically acceptable by the time they are needed. threat to the of this and other similar institutions. We must quality "We certainly don't want new taxes now. But they may be part of the understand this, and the threat, there, unify, overcome either or, if we fail planning for the recovery period-- and that ought to be going on right now." its effects. I ask your help. said Susan Wachter. Toward a New US Industrial Policy? is based on the Wharton Reliance Symposium, cosponsored b the Wharton School and Reliance Group Incorporated, with a grant from Reliance Insurance Company.

- Mark Levenson, Wharton News Officer

ALMANAC, February 23, 1982 5

-SPEAKING OUT.

Endorsement of SCAFR Thefollowing has been heldfor lack of space, ground floor-the only level of the building The implications of the Srouji case reported with the author's consent, since it was submitted accessible to the handicapped-is the Office of in Almanac, January 12. 1982, ("Provost's in Januari It was initially an oral statement Admissions. There, Director Lee Stetson tells Implementation of the Faculty Grievance Panel given at University Council on December 9. me that he-perhaps alone of all administrators Report on the Grievance of Associate Professor in College Hall-takes affirmative action Maurice N. Srouji") extend considerably seriously, and that he and his staff are trying to the individual case. A recruit students to come to beyond grievance panel On the Handicapped handicapped has recommended actions to resolve this grie- Pennsylvania. But now, in your imagination, vance. Failure to do so in this case suggests an Provost Ehrlich hasjust said, with regard to walk up the stairs to the first floor of College unacceptable vulnerability of faculty in general discrimination at the University, and I quote. Hall. I see that a great many administrators who when issues of academic freedom are at stake. "We are going further than Washington requires have offices on that floor of College Hall are Howeverorganized or incorporated, individuals in all sorts of ways, because we think that it is here in the room-I won't embarrass any of you who are University faculty should uphold the right." That statement may be true about our by asking how many stairs there are to the first principle of due process in dealing with their col- treatment of certain minorities, but there is one floor of your building. I know, and so does leagues in the University. The Senate Committee particularly unfortunate minority group to every handicapped person, for those stairs are on Academic Freedom and Responsibility has whom it does not apply, a minority group just so many unbreakable locks to the door of urged the Administration to implement fully the against whom the University has always- equal opportunity for them at this university. On recommendation of the grievance panel report, historically-discriminated, and against whom the first floor of College Hall, if you will con- and we strongly endorse our Senate Commit- it continues actively to discriminate to this day. sider for a mement, thereare many offices that tee's report to the President. That minority, ladies and gentlemen, is the have recently hired staff. Those new staff handicapped. members include a President, a Provost, an James. C. A/wine. Med. Neville Kallenbach, PA S Handicapped people-students, staff, and Associate Provost, a Deputy Provost, a Vice David Boettinger Med. Fred Karush. Med. Provost, a Vice President, and assistant to the Harold Bright, Med. James W. Lash. Med. faculty members-are not distinguishable from Provost, an assistant to Helen C. Davies. Med. Daniel Malamud, Dent. the rest of us by race, creed, sex, and so on. But the President, and heaven how £ W. Englander. Med. Richard Orkand. Dent. discrimination against other minorities, which in knows many secretaries. I saw the Fred R. Franke!. Med. Burton Rosan. Dent. effect denies them access to education, jobs, and advertisements for most of these positions, and Frank FA S Joel Furstenberg. Rosenbloom. Dent. the like, operates even more oppressively against every one of them stated "The University of John J. Furth. Med. Dent. Irving Shapiro. the handicapped; it simply denies them physical Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity Howard Goldflne. Med. Peter Sterling. Med. access to major portions of the University. The employer." Ask the Office of Personnel Rela- Ellis Gollub. Dent. )'oshitaka Suyama FAS - are not in this room indeed, no tions what that meansand they will say that we So! H. Goodgal, Med. Norton S. Taichman. Dent. handicapped could ever enter this room do not discriminate on a var- Joseph S. Gots. Med. Susan Weiss. Med. handicapped person against anybody of one of which is han- Torn- Higgins. Med. Abraham Yaari. Dent. [the University Council room in Furness iety grounds, "physical Roland G. Kallen. FAS Sally Zigmond, FAS Building]-for this building is one of those that dicap." Yet every time that an office on the first is inaccessible to handicapped people. Look floor of College Hall hires a staff member, about and verify this fact foryourselves! No one dozens of times a year, it violates federal law, to GAPSA on Srouji speaks for the handicapped at Pennsylvania say nothing of our own guidelines, by engaging The following resolution was passed unanim- and, when it comes to removing the physical in a conspiracy against even interviewing a han- ously by the Graduate and Professional Stu- bars to discrimination against them, the handi- dicapped person. lam not much pleased at see- dents Assembly February 10. 1982, and is sub- capped are at the end of a long, long queue. ing our top administrators violate federal law so mitted to the University community via I do not allege that the University has done frequently-people in such office need to have a Speaking Out. absolutely nothing abouts its discrimination few morals, afterall. To be sure, the depart- Srouji Resolution against the handicapped. We have made a few ments on the upper floors of College Hall vio- the Senate Committee on Academic Whereas Free- of our older buildings accessible to them. In this late the law, too, but these offices, at least, have dom and Responsibility has issued a series of recom- International Year of the Handicapped [1981], not publicly declared, as has Provost Ehrlich, a rnendationsas set forth in the 12 1982 Almanac; January we have also the new "commitment a concern and published Handibook, a [embracing] with mak- Whereas the maintenance of academic freedom is a truly splendid publication that outlines precisely ing the University resources both available and matter of concern to students as well as faculty; what portions of the University areaccessible to inviting to all qualified handicapped individuals" it that the Graduate and Pro- Therefore be resolved people who are not able-bodied. I hope that (I quote this phrase -how I wish that it had fessional Student Assembly urges the President and many of you have already seen this publication been in clear English prose!-from the Provost to implement the recommendations of the and that all of you will acquaint yourselves with Handibook). Senate Committeeon Academic Freedomand Respon- it soon. But a no matter how Would it not be an matter to install ele- sibility immediately. publication, glossy, easy is cold comfort for buildings that are perma- vators (which the entire community could then -Steven Ludwig. Chair nently sealed to handicapped members of this use) in our old buildings like College Hall? Well, And the Handibook's there was (I the tense) a Out Elsewhere community. maps only actually emphasize past Speaking emphasize how large a part of this institution is plan to put an elevator in College Hall three To support the efforts of the Penn for Brai- still inaccessible to them. Six departments of the years ago, but somehow the administration dis- - lovsky Committee and the Student Struggle for Faculty of Arts and Sciences Music. History covered that College Hall was a "listed" building Soviet Jewry to secure Class of 1985 member and Sociology of Science, American Civiliza- with a local historical commission. How prepos- tion, Political terous that Leonid Brailovsky's release, lettersmay be sent to Science, Psychology, History, plus a building that should be listed, if it - the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S.. Anatoly the Fine Arts library are located in buildings deserves to be listed for anything, for demoli- Dobrynin, at the Embassy of the Soviet Union. that are off limits to the handicapped. Some of tion, should be speciously called a landmark in 1125 Sixteenth St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. these departments are very large, and enroll order to avoid helping the handicapped! The For information: Tony Marx, Ext. 7221. thousands of students in their courses. Yet a funds to install College Hall's elevator, several To send a postcard to your Congressman on handicapped student could never major in, nora hundred thousand dollars, I understand, have President Reagan's proposed cuts in student aid, handicapped staffmember or professor work in, been in an escrow account for two years now, stop at the COPUStable, 36th and Locust all this one of these fields, which together constitute while administrators bicker childishly over week (weather permitting). Postcards are pre- about one-fourth of the Faculty of Arts and whose stairwell or office will lose a few square paid, andaddressesof Congressmenare on hand. Sciences. feet. Just how large is an elevator shaft, anyway? To find the student group indoors, try its presi- Let me consider the strange contrasts that a Well, the new elevator in Logan Hall has a shaft dent. Mark Griffith, at Ext. 6898.- K. C. G. building like College Hall provides. On the that is sixty square feet in area, just precisely the continuedpast insert

SPEAKING OUT welcomes the contributions of readers. Almanac's normal Tuesday deadline for unsolicited material is extended to THURSDA Ynoon forshort, timely letters on University issues. Advance notice of intent to submit is always appreciated.-Ed.

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SPEAKING OUT (continued)

sue, say, of a small bathroom. I trust that lam who suffer from temporarily disabling injuries to convey the suffering and humiliation that a not the only person in the room aware of the or operations-several hundred people a year, in handicapped person feels everydat merely try- strange paradox that both the Provost's and fact- the temporarily handicapped. They need ing to get around this campus. I know that no President's offices have private bathrooms, equal access, too. There will be those who will one in the administration will answer my plea by surely an indefensible luxury when discrimina- say that the expense of removing all barriers to saying that they intend to ignore the handi- -- tion against the handicapped throughout an equal access is too great, and that the University capped - no one could be that crass but enormous building could be removed by making had done enough. I answer, try that argument before I will believe that our long tragicomedy - an elevator shaft of one of them. That of the against some other minority and see how far it - no. I should call it a farce on true com- Provost. I believe, is most accessible to the main gets you! And the expense of removing every pliance is over. I hope that someone will present corridor. How felicitous, then, that the Provost barrier to equal access would be modest indeed me with proof, in writing, that we are really is our chief advocate of affirmative action! if you compared it to the annual cost of end- installing that elevator. I hope now that all can Let me speak proleptically now. I know that lessly moving and relocating and refurnishing see how far from the truth is Provost Ehrlich's some will say that there are too few handicapped our administrative offices. There are those who statement that 'we are going further than members of our community for this matter to be will say that we already have a perfectly fine Washington requires in all sorts of ways." Well. I an urgent one. I say in response to that objection plan for removing those bars to equal access-to know oneway in which we are not. that if there were even one person at this univer- them I say that the truth about that plan is that I conclude: the next time, ladies and gentle- sity to whom we deny access to any facilities, it is so vague that it does not contemplate re- men, that any of you enters College Hall, count that would be one person too many. And moving all barriers until the end of the decade those steps! besides, I would add, we have never taken a true that we are just starting, if even then! census of disabled people here. In addition to I could go on for much longer in this mood, -Paul J. Korshin. the permanently handicapped, there are those but even if I spoke for an hour I could not begin Professor of English

Asbestos

Followingthe February /0 University Councilmeeting in which asbestos The present status ofthe situation is asfolows: wasan agenda item. Almanac requestedcopies ofthe informationpieces An inspection and evaluation was conducted during the past several sent to residents asbestos in their construc- ofbuildings identifiedas having months in all public spaces of residential buildings. Surveillance of the tion. The letter below was hand-delivered to residents' rooms at the begin- material by University staff will be a continuous program. Appropriate ning ofthefall term, and recirculated February 10 with a cover notefrom action will be taken as required, based on circumstances and conditions. Air the Qf ice of Residential Living which re-emphasizedthe "Do: and sampling and bulk sampling will be conducted, as required, and evaluated Don'is"asfollows: an accredited with methods for con- Don't hang posters, plants, hangers, etc., from the ceiling, in that any by laboratory, complying recogniied such tests. tampering with the asbestos can dislodge it. ducting Don't touch, scratch or otherwise disturb the ceiling. As a result of the inspections, all asbestos-containing ceiling covering in Do report if the ceiling surface has been disturbed by cracking, chip- Ward. Warwick and Mcllhenny was removed. Additionally, in some areas ping, flaking or water damage (leaks). This can be done on a repair of Chestnut the ceiling material was found to contain friable asbestos and slip, available at the reception desk. was also removed. The Council on February 10 (by Director Residential Liv- reportsgiven of The asbestos-containing ceiling covering, first floor, east wing of the Carol Kontos andby Matthew Finucane, director of Environmental ing DuBois House was removed to accommodate extensive renovation work in Health andSafety Office)expanded upon the details of inspection and that area. monitoring. The removal projects were conducted by qualified personnel, under strict specifications, meeting all requirements of the Federal and State authorities havingjurisdiction in such matters. Required air monitoring was conducted TO: University Residents during the removal process, the results of which were determined to be FROM: Norman O'C'onnor, Associate Director, Physical Plant negative. Tests were conducted by an accredited laboratory and are avail- DA TE August 28. 1981 able for review in the Safety Office. SUBJECT.- University of Pennsylvania Asbestos Control Program A program was conducted to accommodate future maintenance of smoke detectors, heat detectors and exit signs in all buildings in the Super- block To insure that maintenance when these As previously indicated in a report to University Residents, dated March Complex. personnel, servicing devices, do not disturb the a 16. 1981, a survey of the University residence buildings was conducted in the asbestos-containing ceiling covering, special sealant was Air was conducted this fall of 1980 by a consultant group with extensive experience in asbestos- penetrating applied. monitoring during the results of the indicated that no asbestos fibers were containing materials. The consultants inspected residence ceiling surfaces, process, sampling sampled and analy,ed ceiling materials, rated contamination potential, and released in the atmosphere. developed a program of control action. Control Program! Residents The results of the report submitted by the consultants indicated that there Avoid disturbance of the ceiling material. Hanging plants or banners is asbestos present in the ceiling material of High Rise North. Harrison from the ceiling is an unacceptable disturbance. Room dividers must be House, Harnwell House. Van Pelt House, Class of 25, DuBois House, built to a low height so that ceiling material is not disturbed. Athletic Nichols House (Graduate Tower A). Graduate Tower B, Ward. Warwick activities such as soccer, frisbee, etc., must be eliminated. and Mcllhenny. Report ceiling damage. All damage will be inspected by trained personnel In all cases the asbestos content of the ceiling material is relatively low. and appropriate management decisions will be implemented. The material is also of relatively low friability (breakability). It will not easily If you have any questions, or would like to see the full report which has release fibers, even when flaking or cracked. The presence of asbestos in the been shared with the Undergraduate and Graduate Assembly representa- ceiling material is a concern to all members of the University Community: tives, please contact Norman O'Connor, Associate Director of Physical however, there is no cause for alarm. There is a need for maintenance of the Plant, at Ext. 7202. Significant developments will be relayed to you as soon material and, in some areas, corrective control action is required. as possible.

ALMANAC, February 23, 1982 7

Periodicals on the Penn Campus

A number ofperiodicals are published and/or edited by schools, departments and divisions of the Univer- sitr of Pennsylvania. Some of them are scholarly, but others are intended for a more general audience. Some are available b; subscription, via membership in a socien; and some arefreefor the asking. We have attempted to group the publications alphabetically under general discipline categories. This is the most current list that we could compile. Ifyou have any others, please let us know

Alumni Relations publications 4025 Chestnut Street 11: Health Affairs, John W. Hayden. editor. contains news and features about the medical activities of the University. Quarterly publication for alumni of the medical, denial, veterinary and nursing schools. The Pennsylvania Gazette, Anthony A. Lyle, editor, is a composite of news, features and literary pieces about the Dental School Publications, 4001 Spruce Street Al: Journal of Comparative Law and Securities Regula- University and its people. Eight issues per year: alumni Acryllic Press UPSDM Newsletter, Bill Messcrsmith, tion, Noyes E. Leech and Robert H. Mundheim of the Law of free, parents of alumni and others by paid subscription editor, contains news of the School of Dental Medicine School, editors, is a mechanism for the exchange of ideas $15 per year. and is published weekly. Free. and information about practices and theories of the struc- of Omnibus Mailing, Sally Johnson, editor, is a listing Compendium on Continuing Education in General ture, operation and regulation of capital formation and activities, functions and programs of interest to alumni Dentistry, Walter Cohen, editor, is a bimonthly magazine capital markets throughout the world: Quarterly. Inquiries: Published for and their families. twice a year undergradu- on general dentistry. Subscription is $24 per year. North-Holland Publishing Company. P0 Box 211. lOGO AE ate and some graduate school alumni. Penn Dental Journal, Neal Gittleman. editor, is the Amsterdam, The Netherlands. oldest dental journal extant-began in 1897 with empha- American Business Law Journal, Frederick G. Journal Economic Karl Shell. editor, Kempin. sis on all phases of dentistry. It is published three times a of Theory, publishes Jr., editor, is the main academic for the business law journal year for dentists and dental students. Subscription is $8 articles on economic theory and related mathematical tech- articles to all and teaching profession containing relating per year. niques, bi-monthly. Inquiries: 438 McNeil, CR. fields of commercial law. available Quarterly publication Dental Alumni News, J. Pearl. editor, is a yearly news- J. Scott one through membership in the Law Association. Inquiries: 805 letter foralumni of thedental school. Free. Journal of Forecasting, Armstrong, of its Centenary Hall CC. editors, is an international journal aimed at unifying the field of its and This new Edebiyat, Dr. William Hanaway, editor, includes Middle forecasting, practice theory. quarterly American Journal of Legal History, Frederick G. Kern- will in 1982. Ext. 5087. Eastern literature from ancient to modern, literary theory. journal begin publication Inquiries: editor, is the official of the American pin, publication Society creative translations and surveys of the current literary scene. for for in Journal of Dr. Wind, editor, serves as the Legal History. Quarterly publication membership It is published biannually and is sent to scholars and general Marketing, Jerry Association. 805 Hall; CC. for the benefit and enhance- the Inquiries: Centenary readers whose interests extend to non-western literature. leading marketing publication ment of members of the business and academic communi- Subscription is $12. Inquiries: Middle East Center. 838 American Bruce Kuklick. editor, is an interdis- ties. Quarterly, Williams CU. Quarterly. $24 per year. Inquiries: 933 Centenary ciplinary journal and the official journal of the American Hall CC. Studies Association. Five issues in per year by membership Faculty Tea Club Newsletter is published several times per the Association. 307 Hall CO. Inquiries: College year for members of the Faculty Tea Club. Inquiries: Ext. 4655. Journal of Regional Science, Ronald E. Miller, editor. Amid, Dr. Werner Gundersheimer, editor, is the newsletter locuses on articles exploring the structure. function, and for the Center for Italian Studies and is sent to members of Graduate School of Education Newsletter, Dr. David operation of regions from an economic, social and political the organization. Amici. the Center, faculty and administra- editor, is Webster. published three times annually for alumni' Published the Science tors involved with Italian studies. 535 Williams standpoint. quarterly by Regional Inquiries: and campus colleagues only. Subscription service is not Research Institute. Amherst. Ma., in cooperation with Hall CU. available. Penn's Department of Regional Science. Subscription rate is $35 or $lO 247 McNeil, CR. The Annals, Richard D. Lambert,editor, is a publication of Graduate School of Education Center for Field Stu- per year per copy. Inquiries: the American of Political and Social Science. Academy dies, Dick Hiesler, D-8. Education, CL Ext. 5695: issues for $18. 820 Williams Journal of Social Work Process, Julia Bishop, alumna 1 I, Eight per year Inquiries: Guide to Pennsylvania School Finance, 1980, 3rd Hall CU. editor for the most recent issue, published only occasionally. edition. William B. Castetter. Norman B.L. Ferguson. Distributed through the library of The School of Social Richard S. Heisler, editors, contains formulas for distri- Annenberg School of Communications Press, 3620 Work and through Annual Giving. buting state funds for schools and for funds. Walnut Street, C5: controlling Developing and Defending A Dissertation Proposal, Keystone Folklore, David Axler. editor, is the official pub- The Journal of Communication, George Gerbner, edi- 2nd edition, William B. Castetter and Richard S. Heisler, lication of the folklore and carries tor, is a devoted to communication, Pennsylvania Society quarterly publication editors. articles that deal with current topics in the field of folklore theory, research, policy and practice. Subscribers include and related often fieldwork done members of the International Communication Associa- disciplines, drawing upon , Russell P. Sebold, editor. is a quarterly in the area. Published two-three times and academic institutions and others in Pennsylvania per year tion. government journal devoted to research in the and Hispanic languages and includes membership in the Society. Inquiries: 415 related fields. $20 per year and $6 for a single copy. literature. is $15 512 Willi- Subscription per year. Inquiries: Logan Hall, CN. Studies in Visual Communications, Larry Gross. ams Hall, CU. Penn. Jay Ruby. Temple, editors, features theoretical and Language in Society, Dell Hymes. editor, is a publication empirical studies in visual communications from a diverse International Economic Review, Robert A. Pollak, edi- in the field of sociolinguistics, and is for linguists and others range of disciplines within the social sciences. Published tor. is one of the top ten academic publications in economics interested in social aspects of language in the U.S.. Canada quarterly at a cost of $18 per year. and is sent to academies and researchers in economics. Pub- and Europe. Subscription rate is $28.50 per year. Inquiries: lished in February. June and October at a cost of $30 per 3600 Walnut Cl. The Annual Minutes of PSCO Seminar on (Philadelphia year. $17 for students. Inquiries: 447 McNeil CR. Christian Origins), Robert A. Kraft, coordinator, is pub- lished each winter of the the International Education Review, Tonkin, edi- proceeding year by Department Humphrey School Publications, 3400 Chestnut Street 14, Ext. of Studies. A contribution of $1 is for tor, contains items of interest in the field of international Law Religious requested 6321: Inquiries: Department of Religious Stu- education. Published the International Office non-participants. by Programs Black Journal, Cassandra N. Jones, editor, student dies. Box 36 College Hall, CO. and The Pennsylvania Council for International Education Law editorial board of Penn Law School, is published three (PaCie). Free. Inquiries: 133 Bennett Hall; Dl. times yearly. Subscription rate. $12.50. $7.50 (orstudents. Archives, F.J. Dallett, editor, is a Penn report of operations Alumni edited the Alumni in narrative form, published biannually and sent to selected International Regional Science Review, Ronald E. Law Directory, by Law Office. lists School alumni, alphabetically, geogra- members of the administration, faculty, all donors to the Miller, editor, focuses on multi-disciplinary research on Law phically and by class. Published once every five years. collection, contributors and a few colleague institutions. No regional policies. Published twice yearly at a cost of $9. rate is $22.50 volume: School paid subscriptions. Inquiries: Office of the Archives, Ext. Inquiries: 247 McNeil/CR. Subscription per Law 7024. administration and faculty at no cost. S. editor, is Isis, Arnold Thackray, editor, is an international review of The Law Alumni Journal, Libby Harwitz. Bell Journal of Economics, Dr. Oliver E. Williamson, the history of science and its cultural influences.. Published 4 published three times per year for alumni of the Law editor, specializes in applied microtheory. theoretical, empir- times per year: subscription is $25. students is $14.50. Inquir- School, students, administrators and membersofthe Law ical and public policy as related to the study of firm and ies: Isis Publication Office. Smith Halli 1)6, Ext. 8575. School Board. market structures. Semi-annually, free. Inquiries: 516 Law Review, Dale Louise Moore, editor, publishes arti- McNeil/CR. The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Ernest cles on legal scholarship for law libraries, firms, govern- Bender, editor in chief, presents publication and research in ment agencies, financial institutions, judges. scholars and Bellwether, John E. Martin. VM D, editor, is the newsletter Oriental languages, literatures, history and art. Membership students. Six issues per year at $24. of the School of Veterinary Medicine and is published four dues in the Society. $25 for individuals, $12.50 for students. Law School Admissions Information and Applica- times per year for those persons in that discipline. Inquiries: $10 for professors, emeriti and serviceman. Inquiries: Willi- tion, edited by the Admissions Office, for persons apply- 3850 Spruce Street,'H 1. ams Hall CU. ing to the Law School. Published annually in August. 8 ALMANAC, February 23. 1982

Newsletter, Zeldes. D. Pennsylvania Consumers Board publications, Houston Law School Annual Report, edited by the LawSchool, Pharmacy Geoffrey Pharmacy editors, communicates Hall CM: summarizes individual annual giving campaignsand lists and Stephen J. Prevo,nik. M.D., column the of contributors. Published each fall and mailed to alumni. drugs and drug therapy information and forms decisions Caveat Emptor is a DP hi-weekly purpose the E. whichis to inform theconsumer of his rights of tenant and The Law School Bulletin, edited by the vice dean's and policies for discipline. Inquiries: Douglas of Miller. Ext. 2900. consumer. office, publishes degree requirements and curriculum Apartments is a guideto apartment renting the Law School for applicants, faculty and other schools. Pharmacy Therapeutics News, for nurses to commun- Consuming which can be for $1.25. Published annually in October. icate information on drug therapyand on drugs; monthly; purchased Landlord is a of area The Law School Student Handbook, Gloria Watts, Inquiries: Douglas Miller. Pharmacy D.. Ext. 2900. PCB Survey rating major landlords. editor, includes information on faculty. students, and the (Soon to be published). PCB is an assessment of Law School for all newcomers to the School. Published Vital Signs, Maureen Parris, editor, is a magazine of Supermarket Survey prices. store andcleanliness of local area supermarkets. once every two years. information on patient services, growth, expansion and policy PlacementNews, Elizabeth Engl. editor, is a newsletter financial status of H UP. Quarterly; free. Pennsylvania Sport, is a newsletter of the Weightman for alumni. It is HIJPdate Richard R. Gross, editor, published twice job-seeking published monthly: except six times for HUP Limited external distribu- Society published per year. Inquiries: Weightman October and September at a cost ol $10 per year. Avail- monthly employees. Society. Weightman Hall El. able only to Penn Law Graduates. tion. Inquiries: Public Relations Health Office, 3401 The Report-Yearbook of the Law School, Alba Market Street, Room 300, Philadelphia. 19104. b the PLGTF Bulletin is a quarterly newsletter published Conic. 182.editor, is in the by Clinical Nutrition Newsletter, Wanda Ham, editor, is published annually spring Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force of the Christian members of the graduating class for the Law School published monthly fora national professional audience. Association. Inquiries. 386-1610. community. Nursing Alumni Newsletter, Cynthia Engman, editor, is quarterly for School of Nursing alumni. Women'sLaw GroupNewslefter, publishedmonthly. published Newsletter, Julie Fairman.editor, is The Woman and Law Handbook, Alba Conte. L 2. Nursing published for H UP staff. School of Social Work publications, 3701 locust editor, is a resource and research monthly nursing guide. Walk C3: Nursing Research Newsletter, Dr. Margaret Fuhs, edi- Social Work Process is distributed tor, is published quarterly for HUP nursing staff. Journal of through thealumni association and the School of Social Work or Libraries, CH: Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in alumni of the School. TheLibrary Chronicle, published by the Friends of the Aging Newsletter, Catherine Snyder. Ext. 5675, is pub- Sandie Bauman. editor, is once or Library, is a scholarlyjournal which explores the resour- lished quarterly for federal, state and local personnel in Sociolog, published twice with news of the School of Social Work. It ces of Van Pelt and other libraries. This bi-annual report rehabilitation aging and mental health. per year is distributed to alumni and other graduate and under- maybe obtained by joiningthe Friends. Van Pelt Library. SEI (Schele Eye institute) publications. Inquiries: schools with programs in social work. University of Pennsylvania Libraries Newsletter, Jean Presbyterian, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. graduate Farringlon. Mary Jackson and Eleanor Maass, editors, is Myrin Circle. SI. North 39th Street. Philadelphia. 19104: South Asia Regional Studies, 820 Williams Hall CL: for the staff of thelibrariesand is free. Closer Look (begins in 1982) is a quarterly publication Outreach Newsletter, Joyce Pressle. editor, published which goes to staffand doctors affiliated with SEI. quarter[) and sent to local schools, colleges and uni- State of the Department, is a yearly publication listing Medical/HUP Inquiries. HUP. 3400 Spruce Street Cl: sersities. achievments during the year in teaching, research and Center for the of Newsletter, Lorraine Publications Series of the South Asia Department, Study Aging patient care. editor, contains news stories and articles on liststeaching materials, seminar series, student papers and Hanaway, Viewpoints, Lois Sack. editor, is a quarterly publication of or theagingprocess. Publishedfour times papers for sale through the department. aspects aging on news and fund raising of the Institute for patients and and students of medi- South Asia Seminar, annualls and lists per year for gerontologists, faculty, friends. published cine. nursing, social work, biomedical sciences and indi- themes and visiting speakers. viduals concerned with the Free Ext. Medieval Newsletter, Allison Mankin,editor, is aged. upon request. published Transportation Newsletter, Steven B. Gerber. editor, is 4811 the events and eight times per year and includes notices of published sixtimes peryear and contains news of theTrans- Center for the of Newsletter Supple- courses which would be relevant to those interested in Study Aging portation Program of the School of Public and Urban Pol- ment; issued intervals between issues of during Medieval Studies. Cost: faculty. $8. students. $4. Inquiries: icy. Inquiries: Department of Regional Science. Fels 01. Newsletter. 214 Bennett Hall Dl. is the newsletter of Center Post, Carol Barrale, editor, University Museum publications, 33rd and Spruce I- I. Ann F. editor, is the Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Newsletter, Rhoads. Expedition, Bernard Wades, editor. is a maga/ine issued resources, health activities devoted to Arboretum news and and Center concerning problems, development general quarterly which includes articles on archaeological and six times and events. Inquiries: 39th Market, phone. 662-940. horticultural news. Published per year, subscrip- anthropological subjects. Subscriptions are free to Newsletter, John tions be obtained in the Morris Diagnostic Services Eisenberg. may through membership museum membership or are $10 for one year. $18 for two 9414 Meadowbrook Ave.. Philadel- M.D., M.B.A., Sankey Williams, M.D. and Elliot Suss- Arboretum. Inquiries: years. is and con- 19118. man. M.D.. editors, published periodically phia. MASCA Journal, Stuart Fleming and Kathleen Ryan. cernseffective and efficient use of diagnostic tests. editors, is published twice a year and contains articles on NewsBrlefs, Donna Okonski, editor. is by GSE Events Bulletin, Ruth L. Wright. editor, is published b published scientific methods applied to archaeology and anthropol- medicine, and contains articles aimed toward schools and reflects the the department of pathology and laboratory ogy. Subscription rate is $11 annually. for residents. 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Cary-Naff, editor, is published twice yearly for deans. Advisory Board Newsletter, contains articles University WildlIfe, Deborah S. Levinson. editor. covers Industry department heads, upper level administrators and other for HUP medicine and rehabilitation center. the news, people, calendar events and other matters concern- physical interested persons in the University. Free. Inquiries: 133 the V PU I division offices. Ext. 8611 6081. LDI News, published by the Leonard Davis Institute of Bennett Hall Dl. ing Inquiries: Health Economics, bi-monthly. on health policy and 3641 Locust Wharton School publications, Inquiries: Centenary management for Penn. Inquiries: 1.1)1. Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs. Alan Ned Sabrosky. Hall CC: Walk CE. editor, is a scholarlyjournal on international relations and Anvil, Margaret Finn, editor, isa non-subscription maga- The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics foreign policy. 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The Wharton Center for International Management Studies Newsletter, Jerry Wind, editor, reports on the ON CAMPUS Center's activities. Published three times per year. Wharton Journal, graduate student newspaper. 23-March 7 Wharton Magazine, William K. West. editor, is a quar- February terly journal which contains articles on management and other 01 interest to $5 topics working managers. per copy Cinema or $14 per year. Children's Activities Exploratory Wharton Notes is a monthly newsletter on internal Films February 24 Storm Signal and East /03rd Street. and faculty and School summary of activities. March 3 Sehmeergunt: A IL,fe Among Wives. February 27 This Island Earth Wharton Partnership Annual Report. Films are screened in the Studio Theatre of the March 6 The General Annenberg Research Update, is a quarterly newsletter on research. Center at 7:15and 9:30 p.m. Admission is $2 with an IDand Films are free, screened Saturdays at 10:30 am, in Harnson $3 forothers. Formore informationcall Ext. 7041. Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology publications, Auditorium of the University Museum. Recommended for 36th and Spruce CB: children aged five and older. The World of Wistar, Margaret P. Davies, editor, pub- GSAC Film Series lished the Friends of Wistar for their by support group. February 26 The Blue Angel. entitle Friends to receise it Events Payment of dues semiannually. Special March 5 Viridiana. The Wlstar, P. Davis, editor, is for February 28 The Children's Folklore Series of International Margaret employees Films are held in Room B6 Stiteler Hall, at 7:30 and and other connected with the Institute. House American Children's Games: Singing Fridays persons presents Admission is $1.50 or $10 for a season Biennial Research Report of the Wistar Institute, Games. Plai' Parties. Hand-Clapping Games and Songs: 2 10p.m. pass. 1978-79. produced by Dr. David Kritchevsky. and incor- p.m.. international House. Admission is $2.50: $2 for porates summaries of research. children, senior citizens,and I.H. members. Annual Report of the Wistar Institute, Crossing the March6,13,20,27 and April3, 10 The University Museum New Frontiers of Biology, June 1981. Barbara G. presents six lectures on The Secrets of Eg.rplian Hieroglrphs for 12 16 Diana Patch: 10 am-noon. Rubin. editor. ages through by Craig Rosie Room 229. For registration call the Museum at Ext. 4026. the Riveter, Exhibits Special Resources March 5 Admission information office and the of College Ongoing Po!i'nesia. a new permanent exhibition at the in Films. General Studies several booklets for students. publish University Museum. below Inquiries: I College Hall CO. Through February 26 The Drawings of Gordon Cullen. town environmental Handibook, Harold Taubin, facilities development, edi- planner: Lawrence Halprin. designer: tor, describes the resources and facilities available to, and and Stephen Kieran, architect: in the Graduate School of Fine Arts accessible to. the handicapped. Inquiries: Programs For Gallery. 28 The Handicapped. Room 4. Bennett Hall Dl. Ext. 6993. Through February Themes for Black Hi.ctori': featuring Cost: $1. paintingand sculptures expressing contemporary blackexpe- nence in America. 3-6 p.m.. W.E.B. DuBois House. Purchasing News of Note, Robert M. Eerrell, editor. is Through March 11 An Exhibition in Celebration of 10! a newsletter items for business monthly containing Years of Black Presence at Penn, at the Houston Hall An administration offices, services and the operational Gallery. office. 700 Franklin 16. Comptroller's Inquiries: Building, Through March 19 The wood carvings of Dr. Jay N. Safer Uving Guide, published by the department of Zcmel, Penn professor of electrical çngineering. and the public safety, and contains security tips, telephone paintings' of Ysonne Garner, artist and wife of Harvey L. numbers and information for safer Garner, Penn of information science, at public campus living. professor computer International Cinema Inquiries: Department of Public Safety, a unit of Opera- the Faculty Club Lounge. tional Services. 3914 Locust Walk BE. Through April 30 The American Theatre in the 19th February 24 Salt of the Earth. 7:30 p.m. Centurs: Rosenwald Gallery. 6th floor. Van Pelt Library. February 25 Breathless. 7:30 p.m.: Pi.vote, 9:30 p.m. TheUniversity of Pennsylvania Press publishes books, Rare Books and Prints from Perms Furness February 26 Pixote, 4and 7:30 p.m.: Breathless, 9:30 p.m. many by University authors, on a wide variety of subjects. Shakespeare Shakespeare Lihrarr: Klein Corridor, 1st floor. Van Pelt March3 Northwest Shorts, 730 p.m. For a catalog. call Ext. 6261. 3933 Walnut Street T8. 7:30 Library. March4 Three Films on South Africa. p.m.: Contrail, 9:30 p.m. March 5 Contract. 4 p.m.: With Babies and Banners and Hours Gallery The Life and Times of Rosie the Riseter. 7:30 p.m.: Con- Club 36th and Walnut. For information 9:30 Student Publications: Faculty regarding tract. p.m. hours call Ext. 3416. All International cinema films are held at International Most of these publications are distributed in dorms and Graduate School of Fins Arts Gallery Thursday-Tuesday, 3701 Chestnut Street. Admission $2.50 for administration buildings. Copies mar also be obtained hi House. evening 10 a.m.-5 Wednesday. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. For more information call contacting the Office of Student life at Let. 6533. p.m.: shows and $1 for matinees. Houston Hall Art Gallery Monday-Friday noon-6 p.m.. 387-5125. Ext. 201. Black Student News; a newsletter featuring articles of Saturday and Sunday noon p.m. interest to minority students and staff. Published approx- Rosenwald Exhibition Gallery, in Van Pelt Library. imately six times a year. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Penn Union Council Film Alliance Columns; the quarterly journal of current events. University Museum. 33rd and Spruce. phone: 222-7777. 25 The Annual Amateur Filmmakers Con- ; undergraduate newspaper February First Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.: Sunday. 1-5 p.m. in Rise East Rathskeller. 8and 10:15 Tickets published daily Monday through Friday except during test, High p.m. Closed and holidays. I. breaks. Supplement every Thursday. The 34th Street Mondays areS WE.B. DuBols House, 3900 Walnut Street. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Magazine. Ext. 6585. Free of charge at drop-off points throughout campus. Penn Union Council Movies official student hand- Intro to Penn; the University's Gallery Talks and Tours book. Published annually. February 26 All That Jazz. 7:15p.m.. Ladr Sings The . 24 Classical World. and True Grit, Penn in ink; edited GSFA students: news magazine of February 9:30p.m. midnight. by 28 7.9:30 and To the Graduate School of Fine Arts for GSFA affiliated February Archaeologi: February 27 Clockwork Orange: p.m. Have March 3 Archaeologi: and Have Not. midnight. persons: only two issues published thus far. Available March 7 China. March 6 Casablanca: 7:30. 11:15 and Play It through the Dean of GSFA. 102 Fine Arts Building CJ. p.m. Again I 9:30 Penn Press; a tabloid newspaper covering campus and These Wednesday and Sunday tours are free and begin at Sam, p.m. at the main entrance of the Museum. national issues. Published approximately six times a year. p.m. University Films are screened in and admission is Penn Review; the undergraduate literary magazine. One $1.25. issue each semester. Penn Triangle; the undergraduate engineering maga- Films University Museum Sunday Film Series zine, the fine arts and the sciences. Published including American Civilization Films February 28 The Last Tasmanian,s. three times/ year. March 7 Chamber Music' Concert at 2:30 p.m.. Harrison Poor Richards Record; the undergraduate yearbook. February 26 The Lass Supper: 3 p.m.. American Civili- Auditorium. Powedlne; a newsletter related issues. zation Graduate Lounge, 3rd floor, College Hall. Admission covering energy Filmsare screened at 2 in Harrison Auditorium of the Punch Bowl; the humor Published is free. p.m. campus magazine. Museum. Admission is free. Children are not twice/ University year. admitted unless an adult. For more infor- Scue Course Guide; is an evaluation of courses with accompanied by mation call Ext. 4025. comments on the instructors. Published each Spring prior Center for Italian Studies Films to preregistration. A Out; the women's is February 24 A Man For Burning, 5:30 p.m.: Allonsanfan. Voyage literary magazine spon- University Museum Film and sored the Women's Alliance and the Penn 8:30p.m. annually by Series Women's Center. Inquiries: Ext. 8611. February 25 Under The Reign of the Scorpion. 5:30 p.m.: Commentary 8:30 Wharton Account; the undergraduate business maga- Padre Padrone. p.m. February 24 American Samoa: Paradise Lost' zine is published three times per year. Inquiries: Ext. 4976. February 26 San Michele Had A Rooster. 5:30 p.m.: II March 3 MokiL Prato, WXPN Program Guide; is a monthly tabloid in Cut 8:30p.m. The South Pacific Viewed and Reviewed. Filmsare held in Paper containing articles and program schedule. Inqui- The Taviani Film Festival is held in the Annenberg School the Rainey Auditorium of the University Museum at 5:45-7 ries: Ext. 6677. Theater. For more information call ext. 8279. p.m. For more information call Ext.4025. 10 ALMANAC, February 23. 1982

Music February 24 Women and Addiction: Drugs and Alcohol: March 3 Women in Israel: Dr. Ada Aharoni. sisuting lec- Rosalie Cohen. executive assistant. (iauden,'ia. noon. 106 turer at Penn. English department: noon. 106 logan Hall February 28 The Telemann Players present an evening of l.ogan Hall (Women's Studies Office Brown Bag Seminars). (Women's Studies Office Brown Bag Seminars(. Baroque Triosonatas in conjunction with thegalleryopening Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison: I p.m.. 2nd floor Scientific Adventures on the Slopes o/ Mt. Everest: Dr. of a Photographr Show by Brian Peterson, sponsored by Conference Room. Van Pelt Librars (This is a book discus- Sunkhamay Lahiri. department of physiology. Penn Medi- The Undergraduate Music Society and The Philomathean sion group which is open to the public: for informationcall cal School: 12:30 p.m.. 4th floor. Physiolog) l.ibrar. Society: 7:30 p.m.. Philomathean Art Gallery. College Hall. Ext. 7557). Richards Building (Department of Phvsiolog's). February 28 Penn's Undergraduate Society presents a Calcium Currents in Muscle Fibers o/the Frog: Dr. Joyce Catholicism and Socter i in Postuar Brazil, Professor Piano Recital with Sharon Levy, pianist: 3 p.m.. Max Cade Sanche,. department of physiology and biophysics. Univer- Ralph L)ella Casa. department of history. Queens College. German Center. sity of Washington. Seattle: 4 p.m.. 4th floor. Physiology CU NY:4 p.m.. H PS Room. Houston Hall (1inker lectures March 7 Eugene Narmour conducts the Universitr Scm- Library) Department of Physiology. Microsymposium). and the Committee on "tin American and lbcrian Studies(. photo Orchestra in a free concert at 3 p.m.. Hill House. Patterns of Upper Class Higher Education: 1875-1975; March 4 Radii, phar,naieutti-ols 16r Positron Emission Mr. Richard Farnum: 5p.m.. Room 285-287. McNeil Build- loniographi at the fniversiic of Penn: Dr. Stesen Jones. ing (Penn department of sociology. Spring Colloquia Series). department of neurology. H UP: II am.. Alumni Hall. On Stage What is Given is No More Than a War of Taking: Child- lowne Building (Department of Bioengineering Seminar ren Learning to Make Sense of Texts: Marilyn Cochran Series). 25-27 Penn As You Like It, Dr. February Players presents Smith. Penn department of language in education: 7-8.30. Cultural Diiersitcand Technological in Mater, Penn assistant of Appropriateness Cary director. professor English p.m.. GSE (The Center for Research in Literary Communi- SouthAsia. Dents (joulet. O'Neill prolcssor of education lor and co-chair of theatre arts: 8 p.m.. Prince Theatre, cations Interdisciplinary Colloquia). justice. Universit 01 Notre Dame: II am.. Classroom II. Center. For ticket information call theboxoffice Annenberg February 25 New Methods of LEG Anal isis: Dr. Hanafy (nisersii\ Museum (South Asia Seminar Series). at Ext. 6791. Meleis, Bell laboratories: If am.. Alumni Hall, Towne Brown Bag Seminar on 14 itiieti s /it-i's: },ur.s will Filet',: 26 Notes 8 February Quaker presents. Jamboree, p.m.. Building (Department of Biocngineering Seminar Series). Ger.sh, lecturer in biology: noon. CA 2nd floor l.oungs. Harrison Auditorium of the University Museum. Public Agricultural Research in South Asia: Carl Pray, (Common Women, a Peace and justice project of tht: 26-27 The Penn Black Drama Ensemble February presents research associate. University of Minnesota: II am.. Class- Christian Association). Month, in the room of DuBois Black Historr multi-purpose room II. University Museum (South Asia Seminar Series). Some L ne.rpeiied clues About .4nnino Acid liatnspitri, House. Plasma and Brain Catecholamine Changes in an Animal Dr. Halsor N. Christensen.department of biological chemis- 4-6 11111 Fiddler On The 8 March Players presents Roof. Model of Depression: R. Swenson, Penn postdoctoral tr. tInisersit of Michigan. Ann Arbor: 4 p.m.. 4th llos Auditorium. p.m.. Annenberg trainee: 12:30p.m.. Room 215. Nursing Education Building Phsiolog l.ihrar', (Department of l'h'ssiologv. Micro. March 7 For One Allen Krant,, Together Performance. (The Neuropsychopharmacolog) Colloquia). symposium). classical Jonathan Bieler. Violinist with the Philadel- guitar. Excitation Contraction Coupling: Changes During Dc- March 5 tiathe,,,atii-a/ ,%lodel.s of Spec sutton: Low, Marks. Orchestra and Lisa Bardarson, dancer with the Penn- phia sclopntent of Fatigue in Skeletal Muscle Fibers: Dr. Hugo St. Joseph's tnisersit: 2:30 p.m.. Alumni Hall, lowne Ballet: 8 School Theatre. For sylvania p.m.. Annenberg Gonrales-Serratos, department of biophysics. University of Building( [he Lilly Penns'slsania Program). more information call Ext. 4444 or 7581. Maryland Medical School. Baltimore: 4 p.m.. 4th floor Origins of .'Igrii'u/turi' in the .sear Lost.- The bnctronnnen- Physiology l.ibrar's (Department of Physiology. Micro- tal Setting: I-I. F. Wright. Jr.. Regents Professor sit geolog. symposium). ecology and boton. Lncsersii of Minnesota: 5:45 p.m.. Islamic Education and Religious L,teraci: Dr. Daniel Raine Auditorium. tnisersit Museum: (Special Kesor- Special Events Wagner. Penn Graduate School of Education: 4:30 p.m.. kian lecture in conjunction with the MASCA Spring West Lounge. Williams Hall (The Middle East Center and Seminar on March Sand 61. February 23 Steamboat Roast Buffet Dinner. 5-7:30 p.m. at the Graduate School of Education Colloquium series: Tra- March5.6 New I)irec-tion.s itt Health Can' andFt/uiutic,n:a the Faculty Club. Call Ext. 4618 for details. ditional Education and the Contemporary Islamic two-davcolloquium organiied h Medical School and 'tars- Year 101 Events presents Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel World). ingschool students as amemorial to 1homasW. I.anglitt. Jr. Singer, and Two Black Churches, films: 7:30 p.m.. HPS Archaeology of the Historic American Rest; Robert All programs will be held in Dunlop Auditorium. Medical Room. Houston Hall (Undergraduate Sociology Society). Schuyler. Penn professor, associate curator. American Education Building. For more information call Est. 4811 February 25 The Christian Association's Cultural Harvest of live Historical Archaeology Section: 8 p.m.. Harrison Audi- Schedule of talks: March 5.3 p.m.. Barbara Nichols RN Program presents Indecent Exposures, an evening torium. Unisersity Museum (U. Museum Lectures). M.S.N. on The Nursing Shortage: 4 p.m.. Daniel Brown music, dancing.songsfrom thehit show: Report ona Casta- Ph.[3. on Meditation: Sire.s.s Reduitjo,n and ,4lteri'il Pert ep- liar: 7:30p.m. at the Christian Association. For tickets and February 26 Brown Bag Sessions on Women% Lives: Yours tion of Suffering: 7:30 p.m.. John McKinlu',. MI). on The information call the CA at 387-3268. and Betsi- Wright. Keystone Alliance: noon, CA 2nd floor El/cit of Reagonomii-.s on our Health (are ti stem; $"l() February 26 The Next Communitt Breakfast, sponsored by Lounge (Common Women, a Peace and Justice project of Stesen M.D. on Pi,hitii a! and Ecintiiniii Lot- the Community Relations Office. will be followed by a the Christian Association). p.m.. Joseph. tor.s in Third 14 or/il Health ('are: Match 6. 9 ant.. I uidu SEPTA presentation on refurbishing University City area Bucher. RN.. M.S.N. on Sell-Care .4 Parient-11a,ed subways: 8a.m.. Stouffer Dining Commons. Approach; 10 a.m.. Carl Ia br. M- I). on Nit-dual l)s,i-tstr The HERS alumni organization invites interested persons and Medicine Mutt; Competing Approaches in I)cii'/cs,itng to attend a brown bag lunch meeting about the HERS Countries: II a.m.. Brian Biles. M. I' H.. M.D. on The /)iii-- Summer Institute: noon, the Green Room. Class of 1920 ti,r Surplus: I p.m.. Rebecca Riniel. R.N. on Motor Illness Dining Commons. and Major Consequences: 2 p.m.. Reed I uckson. M.I). on March7 Hillel JCAB presents Love and War: Values Crisis A Hu,,nanitarian Approach it, the DiffIcult Patient. in America. a one-day conference: 10a.m.. Fine Arts Build- March 6 MA S('A Spring Sc-nni,tar on Farmingand \utni' ing. Students free: S5 for faculty and others. tion in Antiquit i: held in the Mosiuc Room. I nisecsin\ Museum. For information on other esenis call the Museum at Ext. 41361). Schedule of talks: Il):45a.m ..Ahu llurei raand the Beginning iii Farming in the It-s-ant: Andrew Mmire. Sports (Home Schedules) department of anthropolog. 0 nisersit ol Arizona: 11:311 a.m.. Diet and Agriculture, in Predinastii Lg pt: Wilma For more information on sports call Ext. 6128: for ticket ol Massachusetts information call Ext. 6151. Weiiersnrom. department humanities. Institute of lechnologa : 1:45 p.m. Estimates q1 Vai-e% Locations: Hutchinson Gym: Men's and Women's Gcnt- Impact of l)eiv/ispintg (u/tori's: Robert McK. Bird. Institute nastics: Ringe Courts: Men 'sand Women's Squash: Gi mbel of the Studs o( Plants. Kirkwood. Mo. 2:31) p.m.. \coni- Gym: Men's and Women's Swimming: : Men's Old World Plants in New World Medicine, March 6, tional Studte.s a Southern .tli.s.sis.sippian Socti'ti Wrestling: Men's and Women's Basketball: Weightman MASCA Spring Seminar, in Talks, right. Among James W. Hatch. of Pcnns Isania Hall: Women's Badminton: Men's amd Women's department anthropolog. Fencing: State t ni'.ersits.; 4 Old Uun/il P/ant.s in 'cciv 14 uir/d Men's VoIleihall. p.m., Computer Matching of Deformed Images: Dr. Ruiena Medicine. Daniel F. Moerman. associate professor ol February 23 Men's Basketball vs. Princeton. 8 p.m.: Men Bajcsy. Penn associate professor of computer and informa- anthropology. I nisersit of Michigan at Ikarborn. (Special Fencing vs. Columbia. 7 p.m.: Women's Fencing vs. Bar- tion sciences, The Moore School: noon, Room 107. Moore MASCA Sponsored Lecture). nard. 7p.m. Building (The Systems Engineering Department). February 25 Women's Badminton vs. West Chester, 4p.m. To list an event February 28 Buddhism: Its Historc and Role in Modern 26 Men's vs. Columbia. 4 p.m.: Men's February Squash Societt: Aaron and Mike Walker, the NSA Bud- lnlormaiion or the week l A/nia,taccalendar must reach Basketball vs. Dartmouth. 7:30p.m. Billupps dhist 2-4 Room 245. Houston Hall our office at 3601 locust Walk ('11 the Tuesdayprior to the 27 Women's vs. Cornell, I p.m.: Men's Organization: p.m.. February Fencing Tuesday of publicarion. The next deadline is February23 Princeton, (NSA Buddhist Association). for Squash vs. 2p.m.: Men's Basketball vs. Harvard. theMarch2 issue. March 1 Surface Diffusion in Phrsisorption and Chemi- 7:30 p.m.: Men's Swimming vs. Cornell. 2 p.m.: Women's sorption Processes, Professor Chaim Aharoni, Technion Squash vs. Trinity. II a.m. Israel Institute of Israel: 3:30 Alumni Hall. Recitals March 3 Men's Vollerhallvs. Columbia. 7p.m. Technology, p.m., Organ Towne of Chemical Air first of a series of recitals on the March 6 Men's Basketball vs. Columbia. 8 p.m. Building (Department Engineering. The student-sponsored Products and Chemicals). Curtis will be held 25. at 12:05 March 7 Men's Voller ball vs. Cornell. 2 p.m. Organ Thursday. February The Communications Scene in China-a Peking E.rpe- p, in. in Irvine Auditorium. Richard Clemmitt, a Penn rience: Gail Pellet, reporter-producer, news and public sophomore, will be the principal performer. These recitals affairs. New York: 4 Talks p.m.. Colloquium Room. Annenbcrg are free and open to the public. School (The Annenberg School of Communications). The Curtis Organ, with over tenthousand pipes, was built February 23 Activity and Function of Respiratori Tract March 2 Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism in Ps ichia- for the Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926. Because thecity Cilia: Dr. Michael Sanderson, department of anatomy. tric Disorders, RaquelGur, M. D., Ph. D.. assistant professor musicians wanted to keep the organ in Philadelphia. pub- Albert Einstein College of Medicine: 12:30-1:30 p.m., Psy- of psychology: II am., Medical Alumni Hall. HUP lisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis presented it to the University. Time chology Library, 4th floor, Richards Building (Respiratory (Department of Psychiatry Colloquia). has damaged some of the organ's delicate parts, thus, the Physiology Seminars). Introduction of Neii Genesinto TheGerminal Cellsofthe Curtis Organ Restoration Society strives to restore the Aging Changes in the Arterial Wall Properties: Dr. Robert Mouse, Dr. Ralph L. ISrinster. Penn professor of reproduc- instrument to its former magnificence. Cox, Penn associate professorof physiology:3:30-4:30p.m.. tive physiology: 4p.m.. Room (51-152. School of Veterinary The dates, times and performers of future recitals on the Human Genetics Room 196. Old Medical School Building Medicine (The Veterinary School of Medicine Comparative Curtis Organ will be announced in the On Campus sectionof (The Center forthe Study of Aging Seminar Series). Cell Biology Seminars). Almanac.

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" Books and Authors, Year 101 ,OPPORTUNITIES As part of the Year 101 celebration, two auto- graphing parties will be held at the Bookstore next week, alongside a display of black authors' work. Listings are condensed from the personnel bulletin of Febru- Research Specialist IV. March 2 at 3-4:30 p.m., alumnus David Bradley ary 22 and therefore cannot be considered official. New Staff Assistant 1(4678) supervises and helps train office at: staff; answers coordinates information with will sign the book The New York Times rated one of listings are posted Mondays on personnel bulletin boards correspondence; near Room 358; other offices; meetings and special functions; the 12 best of 1981: The Chanesville Incident. Poet Anatomy-Chemistry, Building: organizes Centenary Hall: lobby: assists with publications (degree; three years' secretarial Sonia Sanchez and Murial will also auto- Feelings College Hall: first floor; experience in a university setting; good writing and supervi- graph their work. Franklin Building: near Personnel (Room 130); sory skills) $12,000-SIb. 100. March 4 at the same hour: Lecturer Kristin Hun- Johnson Pavilion: first floor, next to directory; Staff Engineer, Electrical (4621). Data (4368). ter autographs her two latest, Soul Brothers and Law School: Room 28. basement; Supervisor V, Processing Labs: first floor, outside Room 102; Systems Analyst (2 positions) (('0329) (4613). Sister Lou and Lou andthe Limelight. Also featured Leldy Logan Hall: first floor, near Room 117; Vice Chairman (4590). will be Charles Blockson and Harold Franklin. LRSM: first floor, opposite elevator; Richards Building: first floor, near mailroom; Rittenhouse Lab: east staircase, second floor; Social Work/Caster Building: first floor; Towne Building: mezzanine lobby; Support Staff ask for at Reference Desk; Van Pelt Library- copy Administrative Assistant 1(4667) $11,325-$14,000. School: first floor, next to Information, Please Veterinary directory. Administrative Assistant I (2 positions) (4526) (C0483) Houston Hall Information Services provides two For further information, call personnel services. 243-7284. S9.925-$12.500. Clerk 1 $7.725-59.350. phone numbers for ready access to events on cam- The University is an equal opportunity employer. Where (4660) include formal education or training, signifi- Clerk V (4445) processes papers to payroll; maintains files; pus. The Houston Hall Information Desk, Ext. 7581, qualifications cant in the field may be substituted. The two verifies employment (high school diploma; six years'clerical is staffed seven a week, 10 a.m. to 10 experience work well with days p.m., by figures in salary listings show minimum starting salary and experience; accurate typing; ability to stu- student assistants who can answer questions about maximum starting salary (midpoint). Some positions listed dents. faculty and staff) $9,925-S12.250. student activities, calendar information, and more may have strong internal candidates. If you would like to Collection Assistant (4642) $9.925-$12,250. information. In addition, there is a know more about a particular position, please ask at the time Coordinating Assistant 1(4656)$10.575-S13. 100. general campus Dental Assistant 11 assists with student of events in Houston Hall and Irvine of the interview with a personnel counselor or hiring (4670) training; tape recording listed without salaries completes clinic forms; assists students chairside; disinfects Auditorium that can be called on a 24-hour basis department representative. Openings by are those in which salary is to be determined. Resumes are instruments; prepares treatment area and dental materials dialing Ext. 4552. For more information about these required for administrative professional positions. (certification from a dental assisting program; two-three services call Ext. 6553. years'clinical experience) 510,175-512.400. Electronic Technician 111(0)463) $12.600-$15.500. Greenhouse Worker 1(4673) maintains plant collection and botanical garden; transplants, re-pots and waters exist- Administrative/Professional Staff ing plants (one college level botany course required; skill in Administrator, Data Communications (4259). working with delicate plants; able to assume responsibility) WXPN: Program Notes Applications Programmer 11(2 positions) (C0423) (4439) S10,550413.500. Jr. Accountant $9,925-S 12,250. WXPN's is now listed in 516,350-522.600. (4649) program guide City Junior Accountant (4664) $9,925-S12,250. which is available at no cost and distributed to Assistant Director 1(4640) $13, 100-S 17,800. Paper, Assistant Director 11 $16.350-522.600. Mechanician (4648) 59.125-511.700. various businesses in and on to (4418) Philadelphia campus Assistant Director IV (0)439). Placement Assistant (4662) $9,925-S 12.250. maintains and doc- the High Rises, the Christian Association. Van Pelt Assistant Director V (C0492) Programmer 1(0)501) writes. dc-bugs, uments able to and isolate fault condi- Library and Houston Hall. Some highlights of next Associate Registrar (4581). programs; diagnose tions interface devices (proficiency in DEC RT- II Macro: week's programming: Business Administrator 11 (4585) 513,100-S 17,800. Patrol familiar with Fortran; knowledge of R RL devices and asso- and Black Inventors, 28. Captain of (4542). B/acksmizhing February Coordinator, Clinical Education (C0179) $16,350- ciated design techniques: desire to learn hardware design, noon to I winds a series entitled p.m., up Expres- 522,600. construction and troubleshooting procedures) $11,225- sions, which explored black art and its relationship to Counseling Psychologist II (3945)516.350-522.600. $14,000. the in celebration of Black History Director (4 positions) (4420) (4652) (4653) (4654). Psychology Technician I (('0489) $I l.225-S13,775. community Ii S 15,500. Month. Group Practice Administrator (('0495) Psychology Technician (C0474) 12.600-S Head Coach, Women's Radiology Technician (4512) 510.175-S 2,400. March 8 features special programming produced Rowing (4515). Instrumentation (4494) 516.625-521.300. Receptionist 11 (4643) $8,775-S 0.725. women to mark International Women's the Specialist by Day, Lecturer Clinical Supervisor (4677) supervises students on Records Assistant 11 (4579) $lO.575-$13.000. anniversary of the 1908 demonstration in New York cases and teaches classroom and seminar component Registration Assistant 1(4472)59,375-S 11,500. City by women demanding the right to vote. Pro- (member of the Bar; prior clinical teaching experience: three Research Laboratory Technician I S9.150-S11.100. Research Laboratory Technician II (('0490) 59.150- grams will highlight women's achievements in music years' experience as a lawyer). Librarian 11 (4604) and classifies $11,100. and present interviews with outstanding women, as catalogues monographic materials in German language (M LS from ALA-approved Research Laboratory Technician ill (5 posilions)S 11,225- well as other features, a special including public program; two years' cataloguing experience; knowledge of $ 13.775. affairs broadcast scheduled for 7 p.m. RLIN; familiarity with AACR II. LC classification and sub- Research Laboratory Technician Iii (('0502) performs fluency in German and one other Western tissue culture, routine laboratory procedures and prepara- ject headings; with back- European language) $14,500-S 19,775. tion of chemical and iological reagents (degree Librarian 111 (4525) $16.350-$22.600. ground in biology and chemistry) S11,225413,775. Planning Associate (4671) supplies data for internal Secretary 11(5 positions) 58,775-510.725. and information to external agencies; writes compu- Secretary III (5 positions) $9.375-SlI.500. Where The Wild Things Are reports ter programs in Mark IV and other languages; assists in the Secretary IV (4672) receives telephone messages, personal callers and mail; makes travel maintains all The Wildlife Service of Penn's School of Veteri- management of office activities (degree; some programming arrangements; records and files; (five nary Medicine Offers free medical treatment for experience; ability to work with surveys; managerial and types correspondence years'executive secretarial excellent typing, dictaphone and unowned birds and other animals that are found analytic skills) 514.500-519.775. experience; II organizational skills; ability to deal pleasantly with people can call the Service for advice or Programmer Analyst (('0316) $16.350-$22.600. injured. Anyone Project Manager 11 (CO445). and work under pressure) $I0.575-S13.l00. treatment for wildlife time of or Medical/Technical S9,925- injured any day Regional Director of Admissions (4680) develops, coor- Secretary, (4 positions) night. Once recovered, animals are released into a dinates, implements and administers programs to recruit and S12,250. Mechanical Union natural environment if their prospects for survival in enroll students; travels extensively; contacts, communicates Shift Supervisor, Systems (4647) with, interviews, evaluates and selects candidates 3-5 Wages. the wild are good. Otherwise, they may be put up for (degree; admissions ability to organize and man- Supervisor (4611) $1I,925-$14.975. years' experience; $9,925-S adoption. age; strong, effective oral and written skills; capacity for long Word Processing Secretary (4665) 12.250. The Wildlife Service, which was made an elective working hours; public relations skills). 1981, its in in the regular curriculum in got impetus Research Coordinator (('0476) $14,500-S 19,775. Part-time Positions 1974 when a group of students was organized by Research Specialist Junior $12.000-S16. 100. main- Administrative/Professional Stall Eileen Hathaway to help wash ducks coated with oil, Research Specialist Junior (2 positions) (0)508) tains and DNA and eDNA clone Business Administrator I (('0460) Hourly Wages. the of the tanker, Corinthos, in the analyzes Drosophilia following breakup banks in or related field; expe- Permanent Employee (0)386) Hourly Wages. of existence, the (degree chemistry, biology Delaware River. In the eight years its rience in general biological and recombinant DNA cloning Staff Physician (0)501) Hourly Wages. Service has cared for ducks, seagulls, doves, pigeons, techniques); (0)509) performs protein purification, chro- turtles, hawks, owls, squirels, and snakes. The matography. electrophoretic techniques and works with Support Staff to do research without (3 Wages. School of Veterinary Medicine bears the cost of radi- radioisotopes; ability supervision Employee positions) Hourly in two in research) Librarian (4393) Hourly Wages. medicines, and food, although (degree biochemistry; years' experience ography, surgery, S12,000416.100. Sales Clerk (4577) Hourly Wages. donations are welcomed. To reach the Wildlife Ser- Research Specialist I (2positions) $13,lOO-$l7,800. Secretary (2 positions) Hourly Wages. vice call Ext. 4680, Monday through Friday, 9a.m. to Research Specialist l(0)496)S13,I00-$17.800. Typist (4608) Hourly Wages. 5 p.m. After 5 p.m. and on weekends call Ext. 4685. Research Specialist ii 514.500-S19,775. Weekend Supervisor (4431) Hourly Wages. 12 ALMANAC, February 23, 1982